Description: Embracing Alienation by Todd Mcgowan The left views alienation as something to be resisted or overcome,but could it actually form the basis of our emancipation? FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The left views alienation as something to be resisted or overcome, but could it actually form the basis of our emancipation?The left views alienation as something to be resisted or overcome, but could it actually form the basis of our emancipation?In Embracing Alienation, Todd McGowan offers a completely different take on alienation, claiming that the effort to overcome it is not a radical response to the current state of things but a failure to see the constitutive power of alienation for all of us. Instead of trying to overcome alienation and accede to an unalienated existence, it argues, we should instead redeem alienation as an existential and political program.Engaging with Shakespeares great tragedies, contemporary films such as Dont Worry Darling, and even what occurs on a public bus, as well as thinkers such as Descartes, Hegel, and Marx, McGowan provides a concrete elaboration of how alienation frees people from their situation. Relying on the tradition of dialectical thought and psychoanalytic theory, Embracing Alienation reveals a new way of conceiving how we measure progress - or even if progress should be the aim at all. Author Biography Todd McGowan teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Enjoyment Right and Left, The Racist Fantasy, Universality and Identity Politics, Emancipation After Hegel, Only a Joke Can Save Us, and Capitalism and Desire, among other works. He is the cohost of the Why Theory podcast and coeditor of the Diaeresis series at Northwestern University Press with Slavoj Zizek and Adrian Johnston. Review "A seminal text that masterfully remakes our understanding of the emancipatory potential of alienated subjectivity... In vivid prose and lucid explications, McGowan incisively displays the impediments to true egalitarianism presented by any group identity and defines, instead, alienation as the driving force for liberatory practices."- Sheldon George, Professor and Chair of Literature & Writing, Simmons University Details ISBN1915672228 Author Todd Mcgowan Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781915672223 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-04-09 Audience General Publisher Watkins Media Limited Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom UK Release Date 2024-04-09 Subtitle Why We Shouldnt Try to Find Ourselves Pages 206 Imprint Repeater Books ISBN-10 1915672228 DEWEY 302.544 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159189256;
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